Today we dive back into the Pear universe and catch up on the many recent changes, updates to apps we've discussed, and explore new ways we are using them. This episode is primarily built for video so if you haven't subscribed to the YouTube or Rumble channels, don't forget to check them out! Links to check out Keet News (Link: https://tinyurl.com/mr2jykku) holesail.io (Link: https://holesail.io/) pears.com (Link: https://pears.com/) keet.io (Link: keet.io) Pinokio (Link: https://tinyurl.com/4cw...
Oct 07, 2024•34 min
It's here! We are back for the second Roundtable!! What do Coinbase and the Blackrock debacle, paper Bitcoin, the difference between privacy and anonymity, Bitcoin drama, the capitulation of Telegram, the problems of centralized mining pools, and the efforts to re-decentralize it have in common? That's right, Guy's Roundtable! Links mentioned for further exploring from the show: Pavel Durov criminal charges (Link: https://tinyurl.com/232razkc) Signal messenger blocked in Russia (Link: https://ti...
Oct 04, 2024•2 hr 28 min
"Everybody's acting as nothing happened. And in Germany, it was so brutal. We had two lockdowns. Each was 6 and 8 months. Like there was a curfew. This is why I found nostr so fascinating. This is why this affects me so personally and why I'm so passionate about it. It's like, oh my God, there is hope." ~Tanja Bächle There is more about Bitcoin and Nostr than merely the tech. More people will be brought in by the energy, the constant building and problem solving, and the feeling of hope that com...
Oct 02, 2024•1 hr 20 min
Today we dive into my favorite Ai app, combining dozens of open source tools unlocking a new era of creativity and productivity? How can you harness the power of AI to simplify workflows and organize our digital lives? Join me as I explore the possibilities and implications of AI-powered tools and share my own experiences with Pinokio and other innovative applications. Links to check out to explore more: Pinokio.computer (Link: Pinokio.computer) Comfy UI (Link: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/...
Sep 27, 2024•38 min
"Stablecoins are acting in a way where they're bottoms up becoming a country. Countries are trying to reason with it, and the one thing the US is starting to understand is that whatever this thing is, it buys a ton of treasuries. I think what is gonna end up happening is the Western block, for a lack of a better word, they’re putting their eggs in the stablecoin basket." - Roger Huang Today we bring on Roger Huang, author of "Would Mao Hold Bitcoin," in a fascinating conversation that spans the ...
Sep 25, 2024•1 hr 59 min
"Sadly, there has been very little in the way of a clear definition of MEV in the context of Bitcoin. And the standard definition of the term is so broad as to be entirely useless in discussions of protocol risk." — BlueMatt As Bitcoin becomes increasingly expressive, does it risk sacrificing its core value of censorship resistance? Can the concept of Miner Extractable Value (MEV) be redefined to distinguish between its broad, unavoidable forms and the more insidious "MEVil" that threatens decen...
Sep 24, 2024•46 min
"I’m not asking you to fight the Beast of Big Politics, Big Tech and Big Media. Honestly I don’t know how you would. This is the end of an age, the _fin de siecle_, the period of time where the Beast is strongest because it is everywhere and invisible all at once. Big Politics, Big Tech and Big Media _are_ the water in which we swim. We are totally immersed in the common knowledge that the enemy is the Other Party, and until that common knowledge is weakened substantially, any direct challeng...
Sep 22, 2024•53 min
"Sometimes your gut feelings lead you astray—particularly in mathematics, in which one constantly comes across results that seem impossible... There are also many scenarios that appear contradictory at first glance (or second or third). These paradoxes can be explained, however. They are not errors but rather reminders that we should not rely too heavily on our intuition in mathematics." -Manon Bischoff What if our intuition can trick us when it comes to understanding complex and interactive sys...
Sep 16, 2024•56 min
"If we leave Bitcoin as it is, it’s a new money for the 1%. The 1% can absolutely hold their own coins in a way that they really couldn’t with gold in the same in the same way. So there’s. But the question is, are we are we building Bitcoin to be a new money for the 1% or the point 1% or are we building Bitcoin to be a new money for the world that fundamentally decentralizes people’s ability to control their own finance. And certainly I’d much rather be building the latter thing fundamentally de...
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 47 min
Will the increasing shift towards smaller, more efficient AI models revolutionize the way we interact with AI? Can open-source models and fine-tunes like Hermes 3 and Grok 2 challenge the dominance of proprietary models? And what does the future hold for AI development as the hype and investment surrounding AI begin to wane? Join me as I explore these questions and more on this episode of Ai Unchained. Links to check out to explore more: Jimmy Song: AI vs Bitcoin (Link: https://primal.net/e/note...
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 39 min
"Using the COLDCARD Mk4 is pretty straightforward. Yet, what goes on under the hood is far from obvious. Technical documentation, the hardware specifications and code used are available, yet not easily understandable by all. To best understand what’s going on under the hood, we will go through the process of setting up a COLDCARD and using it." — Tristan Borges Solari Today we are going to take a bit of a dive into the inner workings of hardware wallets, and the security and thinking around prot...
Sep 11, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Sometimes life will make you feel stuck, it will wear you down and gaslight you into believing you have made no progress. Small, persistent progress is hard to see, and its only when you take a big step back that it becomes clear. Today I explore the parallels between life's ups and downs and Bitcoin's market volatility and where we are today. I'll share why Bitcoin's limited supply and steady upward push make it a powerful reminder of the importance of seemingly tiny, but unceasing improvements...
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr 3 min
"Dark merchants would never use Lightning, right? Because well, you need a node ID, an entity... Versus Ark, you're not a node or entity. All you are is entropy. You're just a public key with silent payment style tweaking. That means no address reuse. By default, coins gets mixed in each round. In a scalable and convenient way. And so it's all private. You can't tell who pays what and when and what amount really. It is great and appealing for privacy people, and I can see Ark dominating Dark web...
Sep 08, 2024•2 hr 4 min
"An argument for doing a consensus cleanup soft-fork first, prior to enabling any new opcodes or other features for new types of L2’s, is that we’d learn more about how willing the wider community is to implement what should be a relatively uncontroversial soft-fork that arguably benefits everyone." — Peter Todd In this deep dive into Bitcoin's Layer 2 solutions, we explore Peter Todd's comprehensive analysis of soft fork and covenant proposals. What are the trade-offs between different scaling ...
Sep 04, 2024•1 hr 52 min
"Lightning achieved a many-to-one mapping of transactions to transactions... But creating even a single UTXO per user is, arguably, not good enough. So there are many proposals out there to achieve even greater scaling by allowing multiple users to share a single UTXO in a self-sovereign way. Again, collapsing another “space” dimension of scaling users into one UTXO." — Peter Todd Today we dive into Peter Todd's recent review of the various Layer 2 covenant proposals and the soft forks associate...
Sep 04, 2024•1 hr 44 min
It's Here! Today I am thrilled to introduce the first episode of Guy's Roundtable. I've assembled a group of OG bitcoiners for a new monthly series where we dissect the latest developments in the bitcoin world. In this inaugural episode, we set the stage for what promises to be an enlightening journey through the ever-evolving Bitcoin landscape. Our mission? To keep you informed, spark thoughtful discussions, insult the right people, apologize to no one, and gain insight from the lunatics who've...
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 55 min
Is the Bitcoin-Dollar theory a path to salvation or destruction for the US currency? Stablecoin issuers have become major buyers of US bonds, and political figures have flipped the script to embrace Bitcoin. What does this mean for the future of money, and will Bitocin reinforce dollar dominance or pave the way for a new monetary standard? It's time for a Guy's Take episode. Links to check out Whitney Webb & Mark Goodwin's research on the Bitcoin Dollar theory The Bitcoin Reformation by Tuur...
Aug 29, 2024•1 hr 49 min
"It’s been amazingly freeing because I don’t worry about my investments, mostly because I don’t have very many. I’m on a Bitcoin standard and I keep my value in my unit of account." — Jimmy Song What's the difference between investing in Bitcoin and living on a Bitcoin standard? In this episode, we explore Jimmy Song's insights on how shifting your unit of account to Bitcoin can transform your perspective on money, investing, and economic value. Find out how a Bitcoin standard frees us from the ...
Aug 27, 2024•42 min
"The end result was a historical wealth transfer from regular Americans to a handful of billionaires. This wealth transfer, which was heavily premeditated and provably used the COVID-19 crisis as cover, should be treated as an unprecedented theft from the American taxpayer. Yet few Americans know that it even happened." — Unlimited Hangout We've always supposed that Bitcoin was going to challenge the dollar and reign in the irresponsible and corrupt monopoly held by the US govt over the global d...
Aug 24, 2024•1 hr 9 min
"When you introduce 2 million, 10 million "developers" that were never developers into an ecosystem that's used to having closed platforms and silos and stuff, what do those 10 million motivated people build? They're more likely to build the solution that they always wanted and that they build something that gets around these silos. One of the most important things that's going on right now is the shift from closed platforms to open protocols. The more that all of that stuff is open, the more th...
Aug 23, 2024•2 hr 1 min
"The government is more than half of the economy. They control everything. What this new battleground is showing is that in the Bitcoin world, within the Bitcoin environment, they're going to have to Samourai Wallet every one of us to get that money, which means it's not going to work. There's either going to be a revolution or society goes from a quiet fraud of 60% of our wealth to guns and whips stealing 60% of our wealth. That second one is not sustainable." - Guy Swann In this episode of the...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 16 min
"The Fed, knowingly or not, is basically in charge of the global financial system. They may shout, “We raise rates in the US to fight inflation, global consequences be damned!!” – But that’s a hell of a lot more difficult to follow when large G7 countries are in the early stages of a full blown currency crisis.The most serious implication is that the Fed is responsible for supplying dollars to everyone. When they raise rates, they trigger a margin call on the entire world." — Peruvian Bull What ...
Aug 20, 2024•58 min
"The government and the corporate environment so desperately want us to centralize so they can they can have total surveillance and they can have backdoors into everybody's stuff. They're abusive and everything, but not everything's imploded yet. And that continues on. But we continue in this trajectory until at some point, the some little thing breaks or somebody actually makes a concerted effort to land an attack. And just because it's so clear that we are so vulnerable, and we realize that we...
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 34 min
Open source Ai is catching up. In this episode of AI Unchained, we explore the implications of the dominant open source models actually competing with proprietary models. We challenge assumptions about AI development trajectories, drawing parallels with other technological evolutions. Could the next AI revolution be horizontal rather than vertical, and what might this mean for accessibility and innovation in the field? Links to check out Llama 3.1 and the 405B parameter model (Link: https://tiny...
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 6 min
"In fact, this is the key feature that re-energized me toward Nostr a second time after my initial experience with it. Bitcoin and Nostr combined together work like an international decentralized open-source Venmo. It’s a method of payment combined with payment discovery." — Lyn Alden How might Nostr's open-source protocol transform our digital identities and interactions? What challenges lie ahead for its adoption and sustainability? Join us as we explore the power of Nostr with Lyn Alden's rec...
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 49 min
"It would be wrong to think of Cypherpunks as a formal group. It's more a gathering of those who share a predilection for codes, a passion for privacy, and the gumption to do something about it. Anyone who decides to spread personal crypto or its gospel is a traveler in the territory of Cypherpunk." — Steven Levy Today we journey back to 1993 to explore a seminal article on the cypherpunk movement and the battle for digital privacy. How have the concerns raised three decades ago evolved in our m...
Aug 12, 2024•1 hr 24 min
Is AI really all hype and oversold gimmicks, or is it going to change the world and replace everyone with software workers? Or are both of these views a distraction from what's right in front of us? How is AI useful today for very real tasks? In this episode, we'll dive into some major new open-source models and releases, along with exploring the very practical applications of LLMs with the help of Nicholas Carlini's fantastic article on where he finds value today. I also want to challenge the p...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr 21 min
"My thinking is always resilience. How did I make Proton resilient? And the conclusion I came to after thinking about it for a long time is actually the best way to be resilient is to enable the entire Proton community of 100 million people to very, very easily adopt Bitcoin, which is a form of money that's outside of centralized control." ~ Andy Yen In this episode of Bitcoin Audible, we dive into a fascinating conversation with Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton, uncovering the intriguing story of ho...
Aug 07, 2024•1 hr 12 min
"Lightning has already achieved a critical mass. It’s already obvious how a Cashu subnetwork and Fedimint subnetworks will communicate with each other: Lightning. That’s how they were designed, so switching the common language between networks would require rebuilding most of their parts. Like English, whatever language subnetworks use internally, Lightning is the language they use to speak to each other, and it’s already locked in." ~ Roy Sheinfeld Lightning is emerging as the common protocol, ...
Aug 06, 2024•41 min
How might open-source AI development shape the future of artificial intelligence and global competition? Guy Swan examines Leopold Aschenbrenner's "Situational Awareness" piece and Mark Zuckerberg's recent article on open-source AI, exploring the potential for an intelligence explosion, the risks of centralized AI development, and the advantages of a decentralized approach. Could open innovation be the key to maintaining technological leadership and ensuring a positive AI future? Links to check ...
Aug 04, 2024•1 hr 57 min
